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Before starting his Ph.D, Martijn studied Mechanical Engineering with at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). There he specialized in Bio-mechanical robotics, and graduated cum laude in 2013. He obtained his Bachelor Degree from the TH-Rijswijk in 2011.

As a student Martijn worked in the technical industry in the Netherlands. The SMART-E program provides him the opportunity to maintain a link between academia and industrial applications.

What I do in Smart-E:

ESR13: Dexterous teleoperation for a compliant robot within unstructured spaces

Within the project I work on the development of a semi-autonomous tele-operation system. I focus on developing methods that are able to learn semi-autonomous behavior. This is achieved by learning a model of Environmental conditions, Human Input and desired actions. Programming by Demonstration (PbD) is an ideal learning technique to learn such models, especially for industrial environments. Using PbD, human operators can train the system by providing a number of examples of the desired behavior. This provides a fast programming method which does not require expert programmers.

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This project has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ for research, technological development and demonstration under REA grant agreement no 608022